List of Sub-Saharan African Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film | List Sub-Saharan African Submissions Academy Award Foreign Language Film

The following is a list of the films submitted by the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards. The list excludes submissions by South Africa, which can be seen here.

As of 2012, only eight sub-Saharan African countries have competed in this category, with each country only submitted once each.

In 1976, Côte d'Ivoire became the first country in the region to submit a film. Although the film was a majority French production, it was allowed to represent the Ivory Coast, and went on to win the 1977 Oscar.

Burkina Faso and Cameroon each submitted one film in the 1980s, Democratic Republic of the Congo sent one in the 1990s and Chad and Tanzania submitted in the 2000s.

Year	Country	English title	Language	Director	IMDb	Result
1976-1977	Ivory Coast	Black and White in Color	French	Jean-Jacques Annaud	IMDb	Academy Award !Won Academy Award
1980-1981	Cameroon	Our Daughter	French	Daniel Kamwa	IMDb	Not Nominated
1989-1990	Burkina Faso	Yaaba	Moré	Idrissa Ouedraogo	IMDb	Not Nominated
1997-1998	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Macadam Tribu	French	Zeka Laplaine	IMDb	Not Nominated
2001-2002	Tanzania	Maangamizi: The Ancient One	Swahili, English	Martin Mhando and Ron Mulvihill	IMDb	Not Nominated
2002-2003	Chad	Abouna	Chadian Arabic, French	Mahamat-Saleh Haroun	IMDb	Not Nominated
2010-2011	Ethiopia	The Athlete	Amharic	Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew	IMDb	Not Nominated
2011-2012	Kenya	Nairobi Half Life	Swahili	David 'Tosh' Gitonga		Not Nominated

NOTE: Films were submitted for consideration in autumn of the earlier year, with the Oscar ceremony taking place the following year.

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